: skip to main skip to sidebar Monday , August 13, 2012 Risks and Rewards of arXiv Reporting Earlier today , some big names in the world of science journalism started a fascinating discussion on Twitter about reporting from the arXiv preprint server for physics papers . Because these papers usually have yet to be peer-reviewed or may never be peer-reviewed several questions naturally arose during the discussion . How can a journalist trust one of these papers What steps should reporters take to verify the claims in an arXiv paper , and should the process differ from reporting on a peer-reviewed article How much faith should reporters place in the peer-review process As a writer who frequently writes about papers from the arXiv , I've grown to appreciate this gold mine of often undiscovered
From a NASA press release: NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has led to a bonanza of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs, or dust-obscured galaxies. Images from the telescope have revealed millions of dusty black hole candidates across the universe and about 1,000 even dustier objects thought to be [...]